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  • If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed Iran

    Dr. Colin H. Kahl, Raj Pattani and Jacob Stokes argue in If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear-Armed Iran that the Obama administration could eventually be forced to shift to a policy of containing a nuclearized Iran despite its commitment to pursue a prevention strategy.  The authors outline a comprehensive framework to manage and mitigate the consequences should Iran acquire a nuclear weapons capability, noting that such planning and preparation is needed “not because the United States wants to take this path, but because it may eventually become the only path left.”  

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  • Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges

    Travis Sharp writes in Placebo: The 2014 Defense Budget and DOD’s Credibility Challenges that the Obama Administration’s FY 2014 defense budget is a placeholder and that the overall level of defense spending will decline significantly in the coming year and beyond.  This, he argues, presents strategic, as well as operational, challenges for the United States, undermining the nation’s credibility by “over-promising and under-delivering on its global security ambitions.” 

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  • Listening to the Generals: How Military Advice Affects Public Support for the Use of Force

    In Listening to the Generals: How Military Advice Affects Public Support for the Use of Force, James Golby, Kyle Dropp and Peter Feaver report that public expression by senior military officials of opposition or support for use of force abroad has a measurable impact on U.S. public opinion. 

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  • Richard Fontaine

    Richard Fontaine is the President of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as a Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS from 2009-2012.  He previously served as foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain for more than five years.  He has also worked at the State Department, the National Security Council and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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  • ely ratner, cnas, china, asia, national security
    Dr. Ely Ratner

    Dr. Ely Ratner is the Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. His research interests include U.S. national security strategy in Asia, China’s foreign relations in the region and the U.S.-China bilateral relationship. 

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